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Bookmark this pageRocky IV (1985)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Film reduced to the barest of three acts. Act I: Russian bionic mauler Drago (Lundgren) clubs Rocky's chum (Weathers) to extinction. Act II: Spaniel Features drives around in the dark night of his soul, compiling memories of Rockys I/II/III into a flashy rock vid. Act III: He goes to Russia, trains in the snow, and takes revenge. Never mind that all other characters are reduced to shadows, that the dialogue is witless, that the political message is a heart-warming call for detente. This, as Fuller said, is film as battleground, love, hate, violence, action, death - in a word: emotion. Pity it's about Rocky. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Dolph Lundgren, James Brown full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 91 mins
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